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The Nutmeg’s Curse by Amitav Ghosh – book cover

The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

By Amitav Ghosh

General Nonfiction

A Lamp Falls -- "Burn Everywhere Their Dwellings" -- "The Fruits of the Nutmeg Have Died" -- Terraforming -- "We Shall All Be Gone Shortly" -- Bonds of Earth -- Monstrous Gaia -- Fossilized Forests -- Choke Points -- Father…

Release Date
2021
Length
350 pages
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
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Our Review

A Lamp Falls — "Burn Everywhere Their Dwellings" — "The Fruits of the Nutmeg Have Died" — Terraforming — "We Shall All Be Gone Shortly" — Bonds of Earth — Monstrous Gaia — Fossilized Forests — Choke Points — Father of All Things — Vulnerabilities — A Fog of Numbers — War by Another Name — "The Divine Angel of Discontent" — Brutes — "The Falling Sky" — Utopias — A Vitalist Politics — Hidden Forces.

Author

Amitav Ghosh